LG K9 TWRP recovery installation guide

This guide will help you to install LG K9 TWRP recovery and root your LG device. Thanks to NonStickAtom785, for sharing the TWRP recovery on xda portal. Note that this is an unofficial custom recovery. LG K9 smartphone was launched in March 2018. The phone comes with a 5.00-inch touchscreen display powered with Android 7.1.2.

If you want to unleash the full power of Android Modding, then flashing TWRP Recovery is the first priority to get all modding ability on phone. If you have a TWRP on LG K9, you can always try Custom ROM, Kernel, Xposed, Rooting, Mods etc.

Requirements and Additional information

Requirements

• Enable USB Debugging and OEM Unlock
• LG USB drivers installed on your computer.
• ADB and Fastboot enabled on your laptop or computer.

Additional information

• TWRP version : 3.2.3
• Use original USB cable to connect your phone to PC.

Guide to Install TWRP recovery on LG K9

1. Download TWRP 3.2.3 and rename it to rec.img
2. Copy the downloaded IMG file to C:\adb. This is the folder where the ADB/Fastboot binaries are present
3. Hold the shift Key and right-click on any blank space and select Open Command Windows Here.
   
4. Connect your Android Device to Windows PC via USB Cable. and reboot the Device intro fastboot mode manually or by typing the following command

   adb reboot bootloader
   
   
   

5. Now your Android Phone reboot into Fast-boot mode. if it doesn’t work for you. then Make sure the below problems.
6. Confirm that your device is being detected properly by typing command

   fastboot devices
   
   
   

7. To start the process type following command

fastboot flashing unlock

8. To prevent fastboot from encrypting cache and data type

fastboot erase  userdata

fastboot erase  cache

9. Now we will Install TWRP Recovery by using the following Command

   fastboot flash recovery twrp.img

10. Reboot your device into recovery mode by typing command

fastboot reboot recovery

Thats it you successfully installed TWPR recovery on your LG K9. Note that anytime  you boot up your device a message will be appear on the screen that "your boot-loader is unlocked and need to be locked" ignore it.